Key-based auth fails - OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 (cygwin)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:17:27AM -0500, hayward at slothmud.org wrote:
> Hey all,  Maybe someone has seen my problem before with OpenSSH under 
> cygwin.  I'm trying to use key-based authentication and it's failing.
> 
> Configuration, permissions and -ddd information is provided in this email.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian Hayward
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:12:47 -0500 (CDT)
> From: hayward at slothmud.org
> To: cygwin at cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Key-based auth fails - OpenSSH 3.7.1p2
> 
> 
> More information on file permissions:
> ls -ld /
> drwxrwxrwt+   9 Administ ????????     4096 Oct  9 08:57 /
> 
> ls -ld /home
> drwxr-xr-x+   5 Administ SYSTEM          0 Oct  9 10:07 /home
> 
> ls -ld /home/hayward
> drwx------+   3 hayward  Administ        0 Oct  9 10:07 /home/hayward
> 
> ls -altr /home/hayward/.ssh
> total 4
> -rw-------    1 hayward  Administ      618 Oct  9 09:40 authorized_keys
> -rw-r--r--    1 hayward  Administ     1228 Oct  9 09:40 known_hosts
> drwx------+   2 hayward  Administ     4096 Oct  9 09:41 .
> -rw-------    1 hayward  Administ      618 Oct  9 09:41 authorized_keys2
> drwx------+   3 hayward  Administ        0 Oct  9 10:07 ..

SYSTEM needs read access to your authorized_keys file.  Try

  setfacl -m u:system:r-- ~ ~/.ssh ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.